Nipper Peakes

Name: Nipper Peakes
Birth Name: William Peaks/Peeks
Hometown: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died: 1920-01-22 (Age:53)
Pro Boxer: Record

Nipper Peakes was an 1890s featherweight.

According to a death notice in the January 23, 1920 edition of The Age (Melbourne, Vic), William "Wipper" (misspelled) Peeks died suddenly at the age of 54 on January, 22, 1920 at his residence on 1 Little Nicholson-street in Abbotsford, Victoria. He was survived by his widow, Mary Ann.

According to a funeral notice in the January 24, 1920 edition of The Age (Melbourne, Vic) on the Trove website, the friends of William "Nipper" Peaks, a "Professional Boxer," were invited to follow his remains to the Colburg Cemetery from his residence on 1 Little Nicholson-street in Abbotsford, Victoria on Saturday (January 24, 1920). Note- Abbotsford is a suburb of Melbourne.